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Louise C Laurent, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
llaurent@scripps.edu
Louise Laurent is an adjunct assisant professor in maternal fetal medicine at UC San Diego and a recipient of a training fellowship from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a fellowship from the Reproductive Scientist Development Program, and a fellowship from the Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Program. She received her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and her clinical fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine at UC San Diego. As a student in the laboratory of Vikas P. Sukatme, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Chicago, she cloned and characterized EGR1, a zinc finger transcription factor. Her graduate research as a MSTP student at UCSF included a large scale mutagenesis and molecular tracking strategy to define the regions of the HIV genome necessary for viral replication in the laboratory of Patrick O. Brown, M.D. / Ph.D. She is currently conducting her research at The Scripps Research Institute and at UCSD, using high-information-content techniques to delineate the role of miRNAs in maintaining human embryonic stem cell pluripotency and regulating differentiation, and investigating the roles of miRNAs in mammalian embryogenesis.
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